LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR
FICTION "Bold virtuosic addictive erotic - there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea
how Broder does it but I loved every dark and sublime page of it." -Stephanie Danler author
of Sweetbitter Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and
her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix her sister in
Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on
Venice Beach but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety - not in the Greek chorus of
women in her love addiction therapy group not in her frequent Tinder excursions not even in
Dominic the foxhound's easy affection. Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an
eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy
learns the truth about his identity their relationship and Lucy's understanding of what love
should look like take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy
fantasy pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism THE PISCES is a story about
falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence
pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love lust and meaning in the
one life we have.
